There is a moment in a birthing room that everyone in it recognizes and almost no one names. The woman who was speaking a moment ago has stopped. Her eyes have gone somewhere the rest of us cannot follow, unfocused and turned inward, fixed on a horizon that isn’t in the room. The people who […]
Autumn is the season I wait for all year as a Seattle family photographer because fall family sessions near Seattle carry a magic all their own. Something happens to the light here in the Pacific Northwest when the summer finally loosens its grip, some softening and lowering and going gold that makes even an ordinary
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Before I ever held a camera in a professional way, I spent years learning to watch children. I earned a doctorate in developmental psychology, with a focus on infancy, early childhood, and the long evolutionary story of how small humans come to know themselves. Then I spent seasons of my life as a forest
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There is a moment, somewhere in the early weeks or months of motherhood, when a woman catches sight of herself in the mirror and does not entirely recognize the person looking back. The face is familiar enough, more tired perhaps, softer or sharper than before, but something behind the eyes has shifted in a way
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We are taught to watch for the firsts. We mark them in baby books, capture them on our phones, and announce them to the grandparents, the first smile, the first step, the first word, the first day of school. And we’re right to celebrate them because they are genuinely worth celebrating. The firsts arrive with
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There is a particular ache that comes over many mothers when they go looking for themselves and cannot be found. You scroll back through the months and the years of photographs, thousands of them, a whole archive of your children growing up, and you notice with a quiet sinking feeling that you are barely in
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The Sacred in the Seemingly Ordinary Some people wait for magic to appear.But for the families I’m called to serve, the ones who wander through their garden with bare feet, trace the evening light across the kitchen floor, and cradle their children through midnight feeds, magic is already here. It is woven into the
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